Q. When did wild Meadows Start?
JR: Wild Meadows started a couple of years ago with Donovan and I, we had both been playing in different bands before. We have gone through a few different lineups, but this definitely feels the best its ever been at the moment. Were all really looking forward to recording our debut album at the end of the year and getting out and playing live again.

Q. What are your influences?
JR: I grew up DJing electronic music in the 90s, mainly drum & bass, house and breakbeat, what I really loved was the crossover between indie and dance music, bands like primal scream or the happy mondays. Ive always loved bands like The Smiths and The Cure. anything that speaks to me on an emotional or musical level. I can still remember stealing/borrowing my brother/s My Bloody Valentine CD which opened me up to a new world of bands like Ride and yo la tengo and the stone roses. I actually started playing guitar late, at 26, and just played in punk bands for a while because I couldn’t play very well, after years and years of experimenting I started to develop my own sound.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
JR: Playing live is always a bit of a buzz. I think its about letting go and just going with it. You can’t mimic what you can do on record, but there’s a different energy to what you do in the studio when you’re on stage.

Q. How do you describe Wild Meadows’ sounds?
JR: Hopefully it’s the kind of thing you’d enjoy listening to late at night on drugs.

SG: Melodic, harmonious, dynamic, emotive psychedelic rock

Q. Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
JR: The songs are recorded as a live band to get a live band feel. And then sonically try to push some boundaries and getting things sounding a little bit different. One live track and then heaps of overdubs.

SG: We're doing a lot of pre-production: rehearsing songs and recording them, getting them as finished as possible before we go near a recording studio. The ideal is to play the songs well with very few takes in the studio once we get there.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
JR: Im really loving Contrast, Cheatahs, Bloodhounds on My Trail, Westkust, Summer flake, the new Minor Victories album is amazing too.